Recently I have been seeing quite a few laptops arriving in the office with their NICs set to strange DNS entries. It appears that some home broadband routers are able to overwrite the DNS setting for a NIC and apply some strange IP range. The below script when applied in GPO will reset the DNS back to “obtain DNS server address automatically”.Continue reading »

Recently at my place of work the question was raised about adding a friendly name to a drive mapping for workstations attached to a our domain. Now normally we map drives using three different methods depending on the workstation in question and partly from legacy systems.Continue reading »